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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything! - Lemmy.World
Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml! Framasoft [https://framasoft.org/] (thatâs us!)
is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been
promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for
20+ years. ### What does Framasoft do?
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Framasoft_Logo.svg/240px-Framasoft_Logo.svg.png]
We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for
achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots
of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital
lives. Among those tools are: * 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly
for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website
[https://degooglisons-internet.org/en], including Framadate
[https://framadate.org/] and Framaforms [https://framaforms.org]⦠; * many
talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ; * A blog
[https://framablog.org/], where we share our views and where a group of
volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ; *
Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to
ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ; Framasoft is
funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75%
of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming
majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help
us through joinpeertube.org/contribute [https://joinpeertube.org/contribute].
### We develop PeerTube [https://joinpeertube.org/img/brand.png] In the
English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube
[https://joinpeertube.org/], a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre
platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Techâs video platforms.
From a student project to a software with international reach, our video
platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many
institutions! The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released
[https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.0] at the end of 2024, along with the
first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.framasoft.peertube], F-Droid
[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/]) and iOS
[https://apps.apple.com/en/app/peertube/id6737834858]. Now that the PeerTube
platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the
way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so
that it can be carried around in peopleâs pockets. ### Ask Us Anything! Last
month, we have published the roadmap for the project
[https://joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-2025]. This week, we also launched our
new crowdfunding campaign [https://support.joinpeertube.org/] which focuses on
our mobile app. We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us
feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign
and our next steps! If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote
those you want us to answer first). We will answer them to the best of our
abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST)
until we are too tired ;). EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks
for all of your questions and feedback!
